Ahead of the Oct 6 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, we take a look back at UCSF's Nobel laueretes, their discoveries, ...

Hot drinks have been linked to one type of cancer. Here’s what to know Ravens' stunning collapse: Baltimore blows 15-point lead in final 4 minutes in 41-40 loss to Bills Dr. Scott Gottlieb reacts to ...

House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform Chairman James Comer announced Wednesday he is investigating the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) over an expedited ...

The Milky Way, our warped spiral galaxy, spans 120,000 light-years and hosts over 200 billion stars, including our Sun. It's embedded in a dark matter halo and constantly merges with smaller galaxies.

Congress has lost its authority under what I view as President Donald Trump’s dictatorship. Thus, Trump gets whatever he wants, including the destruction of science and research and the ignoring of ...

Life would be impossible without experts — doctors help us when we get sick, mechanics fix our cars when they break down, farmers produce our food, to name just a few. But we live in a time when too ...

For decades, smoking has been surrounded by myths. One of the most persistent beliefs around smoking is that it helps you stay slim, a myth that perhaps impacted the fashion industry the most as many ...

Science reveals bizarre truths. Bananas are slightly radioactive. Stomachs digest themselves. Earth has more trees than stars. A teaspoon of neutron star weighs billions of tons. One can survive ...

Here’s where “follow the science” went wrong. Aaron E. Carroll, a pediatrician, is president and CEO of AcademyHealth, a nonpartisan group that advances evidence-based health policy. The Trump ...

Every year, some 1,300 people in the U.S. die by accidental electrocution. But electricity in quantity is not nearly so deadly as most people suppose. Two-thirds of those electrified by potentially ...